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Author: Marion Ingham
Email: eurotran at quik dot com
Date: 2008-04-19 17:26:27
Subject: Re: dag
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> In the store King of Trade I purchased a necklace with a symbol of two triangles point to point, like an hourglass. On the back it said
> daylight
> dag
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> and I have figured out it is Old Icelandic. Dag is the only word I know in Old Icelandic, and I was wondering if anyone else would have a clue as to what the symbol on the front of the necklace would mean.
It's the rune dagaz; both modern and Old Icelandic dagr. It's depicted in the Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon dictionary at the end of the entry for dæg; use the "texts" link above and look at one of the photographic representations of that page. Or Google "dagaz."
| Messages in this thread | Name | College/University | Date |
| dag |
alyss beth |
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2008-04-18 18:16:57 |
| Re: dag |
Marion Ingham |
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2008-04-19 17:26:27 |
| Re: dag |
Marion Ingham |
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2008-04-19 17:40:33 |
| Re: dag |
Marion Ingham |
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2008-04-19 21:14:03 |